I dont know what to do!

I want to get a spider female to eventually breed with my pastel male, but then again I am getting into this because of piedbalds, and saw a pair of 100 percent hets for like 500 dollars. Can a male breed at a year old, because i was thinking of getting a adult female normal to breed with him this year.

To be 100% honest its all up to you and what you feel most passionate about. The best solution to a problem like this is to just do research on bumblebees and pieds, by doing so you'll be able to know what: they look like when they age, which one will be a better investment and most important it'll help you figure out which one you will like best.

Hope this helps

its really up to you which morph you just fall in love with then pick that one

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Originally Posted by ERP

Can a male breed at a year old, because i was thinking of getting a adult female normal to breed with him this year.

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yes! But If you look around you can likely get a proven breeder het male for next to nothing..

if it helps any i find the males of certain morphs to be more affordable than the females. So if you are wanting to make bees (which I assume by your wanting to pair a spider with a pastel) buy the female in the less expensive morph and the male in the more expensive. I bought my male spider and female pastel. The pastel is usually not as expensive, pastel female was much less than a spider female.

with pieds i would buy a male pied and a female het pied, or just the 2 hets as you stated.

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Originally Posted by Kryptonian

if it helps any i find the males of certain morphs to be more affordable than the females. So if you are wanting to make bees (which I assume by your wanting to pair a spider with a pastel) buy the female in the less expensive morph and the male in the more expensive. I bought my male spider and female pastel. The pastel is usually not as expensive, pastel female was much less than a spider female.

with pieds i would buy a male pied and a female het pied, or just the 2 hets as you stated.

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I'd x2 to the above, I happened to get a early 06 pastel male first and now I am in the position of having to spend more then I want on either a pin or spider female. With more research I wish I'd have gone the way Kryptonian suggested.

indeed,

i would buy a 0.1 HET pied and a 1.0 proven breeder (in fact i'm planning this purchase next summer :) )